I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died…every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero. |
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. |
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. |
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live. |
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents |